Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only an archaic scoring quibble gave the varsity its victory over Princeton in a three-way meet with the Tigers and Yale. By triangular scoring, the Crimson finished third, with 48 points, against Princeton's 47 and Yale's 26. Traditionally, though, the contest is scored as three dual meets, although none of the conditions of a two-team clash prevails. In its head-to-head encounter with the Tigers, the Crimson could claim...
Within this entity, the leadership--economic and, in time, political--can fall only to France or Germany. Here enters the German problem for France. The French can manage Western Germany, for the common fear of Germany would cast the smaller powers on France's side in a contest for primacy. And, through a European block, Germany would have a large market for her goods and the ability to make her weight felt in the world. Thus, a marriage de convenance could be effected between Paris and Bonn...
...played before a select few--coach Bruce Munro, substitutes, and the participants' girl friends and immediate families. For most others, the entire game is an anathema. Harvard men hesitate to inflict their dates with the discomfort of sitting through four 22-minute quarters of a largely incomprehensible contest, usually in the cold of a Saturday morning...
Undefeated in three years, the Dunster House tackle football squad led the House intramural league with seven wins, no losses, and one tie. Quarterback Jim Crampton hustled his team to a 14-12 victory over Eliot in a crucial playoff contest to clinch the crown...
...Neutrals. Though President Eisenhower has taken a public position of neutrality in any contest involving Nixon, Rockefeller, or any other Republican candidate, his closest friends and associates have not. This was borne out emphatically at a stag dinner Dick Nixon attended recently in New York, heart of the Rockefeller domain. The guests were all intimate friends of President Eisenhower's -such men as Coca-Cola's Board Chairman William Robinson, General Electric's President Ralph Cordiner, Cities Service's Board Chairman W. Alton Jones, Financier Sidney Weinberg...